The New Urban Agriculture: Growing the Second Green Revolution

In the emerging era of urban agriculture, growers are boosting food security, cultivating community, and trying to change the world.

Brooklyn Grange, a commercial farm in New York City, uses Rooflite growing medium at two sky-high locations for a total of 2.5 acres of veggies and a 30-hive apiary.

Photo by SuperStock/Citizen of the Planet

The Hell’s Kitchen Farm Project in New York City plants in roof-top kiddie pools that are covered in wire to prevent poaching by pigeons. The produce is routed to a food pantry to increase local food security.

Photo by SuperStock/Richard Levine

Backyard farmers in Detroit, the locus of urban agriculture, attend a seedling distribution.

Photo by SuperStock/Jim West

June, 1944: A school’s wartime victory garden, on First Avenue in New York City, confronted the national food production crisis.

Photo by SuperStock/Edward Meyer; Library of Congress

Members of 180-plot Stanford-Avalon Community Garden in Los Angeles cultivate community and reap relationships — and a whole lot of produce.

Photo by SuperStock/Citizen of the Planet

Volunteers are all greens and grins at City Slicker Farms’ stand in West Oakland, Calif.

Photo by City Slicker Farms

Students, parents and teachers work in Los Angeles’ 24th Street Elementary School garden during Big Sunday, a citywide community service event.

Photo by SuperStock/Citizen of the Planet

The Community Vehicular Reclamation Project in Toronto turns junkyard cars into gardens in an effort to reclaim streets for pedestrians and plants.

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